Righteous ends don’t justify dishonorable means.

In this week’s podcast, Michael Quinn Sullivan talks about being in the cave where David decided to spare the life of King Saul… and what it means for us all.

Most politicians wait to pick sides in a fight until they can tell who is going to win.

In this 50th episode of the Reflections on Life and Liberty podcast, Michael Quinn Sullivan continues from last week his look at the plains of Jericho. He says we need to be less worried about which side other people are on in a coming fight, and more focused on being on the right side for the right reasons. Our job isn’t to be successful, he says, but to be faithful.

Faith is easy when it is safe.

In this week’s podcast, Michael Quinn Sullivan looks at the people of God leaving the relative safety of the wilderness to cross into the reach of their enemy.

The gooey, saccharine-sweet niceness demanded of us by politicians isn’t found anywhere in the Bible.

The gooey, saccharine-sweet niceness demanded of us by politicians isn’t found anywhere in the Bible.

When it came to the ruling elite of the day, those people who profited from self-dealing and cronyism, Jesus was anything but nice. He called them “serpents” and a “brood of vipers.” He described them as “whitewashed tombs” and murderers. These words weren’t directed at the occupying Romans, or the atheists, or adherents to other religions; they were pointed at His fellow Jews.

As Michael Quinn Sullivan explains in this podcast, there was nothing “nice” about those words. But they ware true, honest, and actually a kindness by giving voice to those who were oppressed.

We celebrate not the end of the war of Independence, but its beginning—because that was when liberty was made real.

There was no difference between July 3, 1776, and ‪July 5.‬ By all outward appearances, the American colonies were no more free, no more independent. The governing structures were not different.

So, what makes the Fourth of July so special?

The fact is, America is anything but common.